Braun, Marta, defendantPartial record of a witch trial against Marta Braun zu
Mergentheim, 1628 [copy]. The original document is kept in the
Hohenloe-Zentralarchiv (archive of the Hohenloe) in Neuenstein, Landesarchiv
Baden-Württemberg (Germany), Bestand GA 55

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"Processus Inquisitorius c[contra] Agnes Brussen,
Michel Hoogens [Witwe] zum Grandshagen"Manuscript record of a witch trial which took place in Treptow
(Pomerania). The widow was accused of having song hymns to the devil (trial "in
cantationis"). The record includes the testimony of her neighbors, her own
inquisition, letters from the local clergy, an order for torture from the Law
Faculty of the University of Greifswald, her confession, and the sentence,
according to which she was burnt.

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"Acta Inquisitoria Catherinen Büchlers, die sogennante
alte Bäckerin zu Grossmühlingen in puncto anno 1689"Complete manuscript record of a witch trial, Anhalt-Bernburg
region, 1688-9, 240 p. in folio sewn into one fascicle. The former baker was
accused of adoring the devil and having poisoned a neighbor (trial "in
venesicii"). The record includes the testimony of her neighbors, her own
inquisition, the fact that she was left to the torturer to be interrogated
harshly ("to death if necessary"), two personal interventions from the Prince
Carl Wilhelm von Anhalt, and the sentence, according to which she was
eventually acquitted in the absence of evidence, and released after almost two
years.

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"Gela Hermann Büder Wittwe zu Rodenbach, Klägerin,
Contra die Gemeindte deselbsten und sonderlich [contra] Johannes Krüdelbach und
Johann Hansen [von dem] sleigen Ort, Bezüchtigung Zauberei
belangend"Trial record of a witch trial in Rodenbach, Hesse, Germany,
1650. The widow was accused of being a witch by two men of the same village.
The document consists of her accusers' statements and her answers. Accompanied
by a note by George L. Burr: "This manuscript was bought for the President
White Library in the winter 1898-99"

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Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938Original text of a lecture titled "On the Loos Manuscripts,"
on witch hunting and the persecution for heresy in Europe ("that strange
nightmare that fell upon the world just as it woke from the long sleep of the
Middle Ages") delivered by Burr on October 6, 1886, at a meeting of the
Historical and Political Science Association; with a full transcription.